This is an analysis of the poem The Palm-Tree that begins with:
Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,
On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAa bbX ccc ddd eee aaa fXf ccc ggg eee eee hhh aAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010101 10100110101 10001001001 011100101 110110111 1010010100 100110111 100110101 1010011101 11001111 010100101 1010100101 11011111 110110111 10101101001 110100111 0101101111 111100101 00101110111 00100101010 1011100101 010100101 1110111001 10010101 010100101 1100100111 1011110111 010110101 101110101 10110011111 010100101 011100110 11101111 1001000101 010011101 001011101 101101101 10100110101 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; palm, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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